Decision theory with a human face
Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.
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- Full title :Decision theory with a human face.
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Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108547871, 1108547877, 9780511760105, 0511760108
- oclc:on1015858884
- LC Classification:QA279.5
- Dewey Decimal:519.5/42
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Rationality, Uncertainty and Choice -- 1 Decision Problems -- 1.1 Maximisation of Expected Benefit -- 1.2 Framing Decisions -- 1.3 Savage's Theory -- 2 Rationality -- 2.1 Moderate Humeanism -- 2.2 The Choice Principle -- 2.3 Subjectivism -- 3 Uncertainty -- 3.1 Evaluative Uncertainty -- 3.2 Option Uncertainty -- 3.3 Modal Uncertainty -- 4 Justifying Bayesianism
4.1 Pragmatism4.2 Interpretations of Preference -- 4.3 Representation Theorems -- 4.4 Savage's Representation Theorem -- 4.5 Evaluation of Savage's Axioms -- 4.5.1 The Sure-Thing Principle -- 4.5.2 State Independence / Rectangular Field -- 4.5.3 Probability Principle -- 4.6 Evaluation of Savage's Argument -- Part II Prospective Rationality -- 5 Rational Belief and Desire -- 5.1 Agents -- 5.2 Prospects -- 5.2.1 Vocabulary -- 5.2.2 Boolean Algebras* -- 5.2.3 Conditional Algebras* -- 5.3 Attitudes -- 5.3.1 Comparative Relations
5.3.2 Numerical Representation of Comparative Relations*5.4 Rational Belief and Desire -- 5.4.1 Numerical Degrees of Belief and Desire…
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